Gothic Ivories Project | Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)

Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 129mm
Width: 162mm
Depth: 9mm

Side 1: betrothal. Ruler (?) with courtiers and servants.
Side 2: meal scene; toad on the chest of a man; lady raising her arms. Man with pincers trying to remove the toad from the man's face. Man with the toad on his face confessing to a priest.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration.

Molinier 1890: France, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Provenance
Spitzer collection: his sale, 1893, lot 165. Syd Levethan collection. Private collection, London (bought from Sam Fogg, 26 September 2007).

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 130 (E. Molinier).

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